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Does Cinnamon Reduce Blood Glucose Levels? I Try it Out
As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, I have a family history of diabetes that I have been able to hold at bay – I think – through my low carb diet. My siblings both got rather severe cases in their...
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My Last Post on Irvingia
[Update 060113 - I have taken the irvingia posts down. I'm simply anti-supplement at this point and I feel that they serve no useful purpose. Perhaps I'll write a summary of the whole thing one day.]...
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Are Vitamins and Supplements Worth it?
One of the paradoxes in a consumer society like ours, is that to lose weight, to remove something, we are typically instructed to do so by consuming something else. It’s just how we’re taught: got a...
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I Suck At Low Carb Dieting: Week 1 – February 26, 2012
I must admit, honestly and frankly: I suck at low carb dieting. This might sound odd coming from a guy who has been more or less following a low carb lifestyle since September of 2003 and lost 80 pound...
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I Suck At Low Carb Dieting – Week 5
NOTE: For those of you who haven’t been following along, a brief introduction. After flailing pointlessly at a stubborn stall, I decided to try a period of really low carb dieting to break the stall –...
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Want to Stop Eating Food? Here’s Someone Working on That
I was very interested to read about Soylent – an experiment by an individual in replacing eating with a simple drink consisting of all the necessary macronutrients and micronutrients sourced as...
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About That Book…
If I’ve seemed suspiciously quiet as of late, it is NOT that I haven’t been writing. It’s what I am writing. Right now, if I was upset about anything worth writing about, it is writing itself. I have...
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Atkins Induction Day 2: ‘Shut Your Piehole – with McDonalds’
Another doozy of a day in work. And about midday and I had that feeling come over me I know so well. It’s a physical wall of sorts – I do not notice any mental fatigue at all, just a slight physical...
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Atkins Induction Day 3 – I Don’t Exercise – Or Do I?
On Wednesday I received my weekly email report from my Fitbit – a little device about the size of a clothes pin that tracks exercise by monitoring your steps, the flights of stairs that you climb, and...
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Why I Hate Supplements
It’s Jimmy Moore’s fault. Not that I hate Jimmy Moore, of course, he’s a nice guy who tirelessly promotes ‘low carb’ with sincerity, honesty, warmth, and graciousness. I hate that he made me think...
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Low Carb FAQ
[UPDATE: I am busy with a number of things and thought I might leave this post in place for a while, updating occasionally with new questions. Let's see how this goes] A lot of people get to this site...
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My 30-Day 70% Fat Diet Weight Loss Experiment
This is a little unusual for me because my normal approach is to take things slow, relax along the way, and look at weight loss as a casual, relaxed, and pleasant thing. But lately I’ve been thwarted...
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10 Personal Food Rules That Contradict Conventional Wisdom
In my own experience and research, I have a number of peculiar notions that most people find odd. I’ve come to these through my own research, as well as my own experimentation. I have way more than 10,...
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How I lost 10 Lbs.: Jan 2, 2011 to Feb 5, 2011
My Weight from Jan 1, 2010 to Feb 5, 2010 On Jan 3, I wrote this post, starting a new stab at peeling off the pounds. To spare the internet more pointless blogging, I stated that I’d write about it...
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2 Reasons Why Vitamins Might Be Bad For You That Might Not Be What You Think
You might have read the story that states vitamins do nothing – in fact, they might reduce lifespan – at least in the older woman in the study. Here’s one link to the story – it’s not hard to find...
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Does Cinnamon Reduce Blood Glucose Levels? I Try it Out
As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, I have a family history of diabetes that I have been able to hold at bay – I think – through my low carb diet. My siblings both got rather severe cases in their...
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Canned Salmon and Avocado Dip
As I like to avoid vitamins and supplements (a long story) I try to get my nutrients from my food. So instead of taking a fish oil gelcap I’d rather get it straight from the source – and one of the...
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Canned Salmon and Avocado Dip – Version 2
I wasn’t impressed by my first version of this recipe, and might have forgotten it completely, but the other day my 14-year-old asked me: “Daddy, can you make more of that salmon dip?” I was not...
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Fat, Dumb & Happy Day 14 &15
March 23, 2013 – 221.8 Still in ketosis. The weight gain was half of what I expected so I’m not particularly disturbed by this. The overaged kielbasa has not had any ill effect on me. Of course, if the...
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The April Fool: Day 1
Day 1: Tuesday, March 1, 2014 – 225.4 On day one of my ‘real’ diet I had my usual breakfast of coffee and cream – that’s not changing anytime soon. I did read an article that said that drinking dairy...
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